Phonograph record



Patented Mar. 17, 1925.

\ UNITED. STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR IBURDETTE SMITH, OF SOUTH BROWNSVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

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'- Application filed April 6, 1922. Serial No. 550,215.

provements in Phonograph Records, of:

which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to records for reproducing machines such as phonographs and the like, and relates more particularly to records of the disk type.

An object of this invention is to produce novel means whereby the trade marks and identifying indicia and titles of records of the disk type may be exhibited without necessitating the removal of the records from a cabinet or storage; and furthermore, an object of the invention is to produce a record of the character indicated having greater capacity or record surface than those now commonly used.

It is a further object of this inyention to provide novel means whereby records now in common use may be provided with indicia by which their indentity or character may be observed without the necessity of removing the records from a cabinet or storage; and the invention further contemplates the provisionof novel means by which the labels or tag-like tickets may be attached to the said records.

It is furthermore an object of this invention to provide identifying labels which can be readily applied to records now in common use and which will prove comparatively inexpensive to manufacture.

l/Vith the foregoing and other objects in view, the invention consists in the details of construction, and in the arrangement and combination of parts to be hereinaftermore fully set forth and'claimed.

In describing the invention in detail, reference will be had to the accompanying drawings forming part of this application wherein like characters denote corresponding parts in the several views, and in which Figure 1 illustrates a plan view of an improved record embodying the invention;

Figure 2 illustrates a plan view of a fragment of an ordinary record, showing a device embodying the invention applied thereto;

Figure 3 illustrates an end view of the tag holding clip;

Figure 4 illustrates a sectional view on the line 44 of Fig. 3:

Figure 5 illustrates a plan view of the blank from which the clip is formed; and

Figure 6 illustrates a plan view of a record of modified construction.

In these drawings 10 denotes a record which may be of any appropriate material, and it is here shown as having a plain groove extending from its center to a point near the periphery. A record of this charactor will have increased capacity as compared with records now in common use that have a central field Where theidentifying number and title are displayed. In the old types having this central field, it is 4 necessary to remove the record before gainingda knowledge of the subject of the re-. cor

In the embodiment of the invention shown in Fig. 1, the disk or record 10 has an extension or lip 11 on which the indicia is exhibited, and of course the invens tor does not wish to be limited with respect to the surface ornamentation of this part of the disk or record. Enough is illustrated in the drawing to demonstrate the utility of the invention and the manner; I

in which it is carried into ractice.

In Fig. 2 a modification 1s illustrated, in

which the record 12 is of the known type in which the central portion constitutes the field for exhibiting the indicia. In order to render it possible to identify the character of the record by means external to or out,- side of the field of the record, a record holder is employed which is generally identified by the numeral 13.

In the present embodiment of the inven-. tion, the indicia or card holder is formed of a single piece of metal as shown in Fig. 5, and in producing this holder it will be seen that it can be made wholly by the stamping process, so that the cost of pro-- duction will be comparatively small.

The section 14 of the holder is frame-like, in that it has an aperture 15 to expose the indicia on a card or indicia bearing element 16. The section has an extension 17 which" forms one of the jaws of a clip when the section 14 is bent or folded on the section 18, the said section 18 having an aperture 19 through which the indica may be seen. An extension 20 of the section 18 forms the other member of the clip, and when the two sections are bent, one on the other, as shown in Fig. 3, the extensions 17 and 20 are paral-.

lel and are adapted to be applied to opposite sides of the record for retaining the card holder'in' place. I

' The section 18 has flanges 21 and 22 which are adapted to be folded or bent around the edges of the section 14-to prevent the sec form shown in Fig. 1, in that the record groove extends from the center and terminates a distance from the periphery to form a marginal flange 24 which is substantially the same width as the extension 11 of the record 10, and the whole surface of this tions from spreading, one from the other, marginal flange may be employed for adand to retain the jaws of the ch firmly in vertising matter, or for the display of incontact with the record to whic they are applied. The section 18 is further provided with a flange or extension 22 which is adapted to be bent around the edge of the section 14 after the card bearing the indicia has been inserted in the holder, in order to form a partial closure or guard to revent the escape of the indicia bearing e ement, as it might escape due to centrifugal action while the record is being turned in the act of playing.

It follows from an inspection of this illustration that after the indicia bearing element has been applied and the clip or holder is attached to the record, it will have the appearance of the indicator shown in Fig. 2 and that it will be accessible without rcmoving the record from the cabinet or storage.

In that form of the invention shown in dioia, according to the wishes of the manufacturer. The embodiment shown in Fig. 6 is a modification of the invention as dis closed in Fig. 1 and is intended for use where economy of material is not an essential consideration in the manufacture or production of the record.

I claim:

1. In a recordfor phonographs, a circular record disk having a short integral marginal extension at one portion of its edge, and record-indicating indicia on the surface of said extension.

2. In a phonograph record, a relatively short laterally pro'ecting tab formed integrally upon the e ge thereof and adapted to. have the name of the selection applied to either face thereof.

' ARTHUR BURDETTE SMITH. 

